The IDB and IEDB: intron sequence and evolution databases.

abstract：:Dictyostelium intermediate repeat sequence 1 (DIRS-1) is the founding member of a poorly characterized class of retrotransposable elements that contain inverse long terminal repeats and tyrosine recombinase instead of DDE-type integrase enzymes. In Dictyostelium discoideum, DIRS-1 forms clusters that adopt the functio...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Wiegand S,Meier D,Seehafer C,Malicki M,Hofmann P,Schmith A,Winckler T,Földesi B,Boesler B,Nellen W,Reimegård J,Käller M,Hällman J,Emanuelsson O,Avesson L,Söderbom F,Hammann C

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that transcription from a distal promoter (promoter B) of the estrogen receptor alpha (ERalpha) gene is responsible for the increased expression of ERalpha in human breast carcinomas. This paper first characterized the promoter B region in terms of transient transfection experiments with lu...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Tanimoto K,Eguchi H,Yoshida T,Hajiro-Nakanishi K,Hayashi S

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A general approach for the synthesis of oligonucleotide-triplet phosphoramidites and the synthesis of four such blocks are described. A strategy was devised to minimize the number of dimer precursors needed for synthesis of a complete set of triplet-amidite blocks encoding all 20 amino acids. Whereas synthesis of 20 t...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Ono A,Matsuda A,Zhao J,Santi DV

更新日期：1995-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene Ontology (GO) is the most widely accepted attempt to construct a unified and structured vocabulary for the description of genes and their products in any organism. Annotation by GO terms is performed in most of the current genome projects, which besides generality has the advantage of being very convenient for co...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Hennig S,Groth D,Lehrach H

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proper expression of the genes of the human beta-globin gene locus requires the associated locus control region (LCR). Structurally, the LCR is defined by the presence of four domains of erythroid-specific chromatin structure. These domains, which have been characterized as DNase I hypersensitive sites (HSs), comprise...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Pomerantz O,Goodwin AJ,Joyce T,Lowrey CH

更新日期：1998-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Homopolyribonucleotides and E. coli DNA wer spin labeled with an iodoacetamide-nitroxide compound. The extent of labeling is highly dependent upon the nature of the base and the secondary structure of the nucleic acid. This spin label-polymer linkage is unstable at high temperatures and in phosphate buffers. In order ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Caspary WJ,Greene JJ,Stempel LM,Ts'o PO

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensitive detection of microsatellite instability (MSI) in tissue or liquid biopsies using next generation sequencing (NGS) has growing prognostic and predictive applications in cancer. However, the complexities of NGS make it cumbersome as compared to established multiplex-PCR detection of MSI. We present a new appro...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Yu F,Leong KW,Makrigiorgos A,Adalsteinsson VA,Ladas I,Ng K,Mamon H,Makrigiorgos GM

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:At the DNA/RNA level, biological signals are defined by a combination of spatial structures and sequence motifs. Until now, few attempts had been made in writing general purpose search programs that take into account both sequence and structure criteria. Indeed, the most successful structure scanning programs are usua...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Billoud B,Kontic M,Viari A

更新日期：1996-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotide excision repair is initiated by two different damage recognition subpathways, global genome repair (GGR) and transcription-coupled repair (TCR). In GGR, XPC detects DNA lesions and recruits TFIIH via interaction with the pleckstrin homology (PH) domain of TFIIH subunit p62. In TCR, an elongating form of RNA...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Okuda M,Nakazawa Y,Guo C,Ogi T,Nishimura Y

更新日期：2017-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Large expansions of the trinucleotide repeat GAA*TTC within the first intron of the X25 (frataxin) gene cause Friedreich's ataxia, the most common inherited ataxia. Expansion leads to reduced levels of frataxin mRNA in affected individuals. Here we show that GAA*TTC tracts, in the absence of any other frataxin gene se...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Grabczyk E,Usdin K

更新日期：2000-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The CATH database of protein domain structures (http://www.biochem.ucl.ac.uk/bsm/cath_new) currently contains 34 287 domain structures classified into 1383 superfamilies and 3285 sequence families. Each structural family is expanded with domain sequence relatives recruited from GenBank using a variety of efficient seq...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Pearl FM,Bennett CF,Bray JE,Harrison AP,Martin N,Shepherd A,Sillitoe I,Thornton J,Orengo CA

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arabidopsis microRNA (miRNA) genes (MIR) give rise to 20- to 22-nt miRNAs that are generated predominantly by the type III endoribonuclease Dicer-like 1 (DCL1) but do not require any RNA-dependent RNA Polymerases (RDRs) or RNA Polymerase IV (Pol IV). Here, we identify a novel class of non-conserved MIR genes that give...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Chellappan P,Xia J,Zhou X,Gao S,Zhang X,Coutino G,Vazquez F,Zhang W,Jin H

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thousands of eukaryotic protein-coding genes generate circular RNAs that have covalently linked ends and are resistant to degradation by exonucleases. To prove their circularity as well as biochemically enrich these transcripts, it has become standard in the field to use the 3'-5' exonuclease RNase R. Here, we demonst...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Xiao MS,Wilusz JE

更新日期：2019-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Reverse transcription in retroviruses and retrotransposons requires nucleic acid chaperones, which drive the rearrangement of nucleic acid conformation. The nucleic acid chaperone properties of the human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) nucleocapsid (NC) protein have been extensively studied, and nucleic acid agg...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Chaurasiya KR,Geertsema H,Cristofari G,Darlix JL,Williams MC

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computer program has been developed which aids in the determination of restriction enzyme recognition sequences. This is achieved by cleaving DNAs of known sequence with a restriction endonuclease and comparing the fragmentation pattern with a computer-generated set of patterns. The feasibility of this approach has ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Gingeras TR,MIlazzo JP,Roberts RJ

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is a critical regulator of cell growth, integrating multiple signalling cues and pathways. Key among the downstream activities of mTOR is the control of the protein synthesis machinery. This is achieved, in part, via the co-ordinated regulation of mRNAs that contain a terminal ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Smith EM,Benbahouche NEH,Morris K,Wilczynska A,Gillen S,Schmidt T,Meijer HA,Jukes-Jones R,Cain K,Jones C,Stoneley M,Waldron JA,Bell C,Fonseca BD,Blagden S,Willis AE,Bushell M

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:No analogous nucleoside triphosphate was found which acts as well as ATP in binding to and supporting catalysis of leucyl-tRNA synthetase from Escherichia coli MRE 600. However, there are numerous nucleotides which are able to replace ATP, but with lower efficiency. The 6-amino group of the adenine ring and the 2'-hyd...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Marutzky R,Flossdorf J,Kula MR

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription of the bacteriophage Mu mom operon requires transactivation by the phage-encoded C protein. DNase I footprinting showed that in the absence of C, Escherichia coli RNA polymerase E(sigma)70 (RNAP) binds to the mom promoter (Pmom) region at a site, P2 (from -64 to -11 with respect to the transcription star...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Sun W,Hattman S

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs are a class of small non-coding RNAs that serve as important regulators of gene expression at the posttranscriptional level. They are stable in body fluids and pose great potential to serve as biomarkers. Here, we present a highly specific, sensitive and cost-effective system to quantify miRNA expression bas...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Androvic P,Valihrach L,Elling J,Sjoback R,Kubista M

更新日期：2017-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:T7 RNA polymerase promoters consist of a highly conserved 23 base-pair sequence that spans the site of the initiation of transcription (+1) and extends from -17 to +6. To determine the bases within the T7 consensus promoter that are essential for promoter function a library of mutant T7 promoters was constructed, and ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Ikeda RA,Ligman CM,Warshamana S

更新日期：1992-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:With an increased emphasis on genotyping of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in disease association studies, the genotyping platform of choice is constantly evolving. In addition, the development of more specific SNP assays and appropriate genotype validation applications is becoming increasingly critical to elu...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Johnson MP,Haupt LM,Griffiths LR

更新日期：2004-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertion of the four major nucleotides at the 5'-side of the anticodon triplet of E. coli tRNAMetf was performed by joining of the half molecules obtained by limited digestion with RNase A and the chemically synthesized tetranucleotide pN-C-A-U using RNA ligase. Insertion of U-U at the 5'-side or A and A-A at the 3'-...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Doi T,Yamane A,Matsugi J,Ohtsuka E,Ikehara M

更新日期：1985-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The vitamin D receptor mediates the signal of 1 alpha, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 by binding to vitamin D responsive elements in DNA as a homodimer or as a heterodimer composed of one vitamin D receptor subunit and one retinoid X receptor subunit. We have mapped the dimerization interfaces of the vitamin D receptor that i...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Nishikawa J,Kitaura M,Imagawa M,Nishihara T

更新日期：1995-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanisms that underlie the neurological manifestations of patients with inherited diseases of vitamin B12 (cobalamin) metabolism remain to date obscure. We observed transcriptomic changes of genes involved in RNA metabolism and endoplasmic reticulum stress in a neuronal cell model with impaired cobalam...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Battaglia-Hsu SF,Ghemrawi R,Coelho D,Dreumont N,Mosca P,Hergalant S,Gauchotte G,Sequeira JM,Ndiongue M,Houlgatte R,Alberto JM,Umoret R,Robert A,Paoli J,Jung M,Quadros EV,Guéant JL

更新日期：2018-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Resolvase enzymes that cleave DNA four-way (Holliday) junctions are required for poxvirus replication, but clinically useful inhibitors have not been developed. Here, we report an assay for resolvase cleavage activity based on fluorescence polarization (FP) for high-throughput screening and mechanistic studies. Initia...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Culyba M,Hwang Y,Attar S,Madrid PB,Bupp J,Huryn D,Sanchez L,Grobler J,Miller MD,Bushman FD

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GGRNA (http://GGRNA.dbcls.jp/) is a Google-like, ultrafast search engine for genes and transcripts. The web server accepts arbitrary words and phrases, such as gene names, IDs, gene descriptions, annotations of gene and even nucleotide/amino acid sequences through one simple search box, and quickly returns relevant Re...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Naito Y,Bono H

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the isolation of single stranded plasmid DNA, various E. coli and E. coli-Streptomyces shuttle plasmids were equipped with the phage f1 replication origin. The transformation of some representative Streptomyces species with plasmid vectors occurred irrespective of whether single or double stranded DNA was used. In...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Hillemann D,Pühler A,Wohlleben W

更新日期：1991-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Using cyanoethyldiisopropylamino phosphoramidite chemistry, four oligonucleotides constituting a part of the sequence of the initiator t-RNA from B. subtilis were synthesized. For the protection of the exocyclic amino functions of bases, phenoxyacetyl group was used for adenine and guanine, and acetyl group was prefer...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Chaix C,Duplaa AM,Molko D,Téoule R

更新日期：1989-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Micrococcal nuclease has been shown to preferentially cleave chromatin in the region of genes actively engaged in transcription. We have used this preferential cleavage to show that the metallothionein (MT) gene in adult mouse liver, when induced to produce mRNA by injection of cadmium, becomes more susceptible to nuc...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Koropatnick J,Andrews G,Duerksen JD,Varshney U,Gedamu L

更新日期：1983-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunotoxoin-mediated cell targeting (IMCT) is a technique for conditionally ablating specific cell types based on the cytotoxic activity of a recombinant immunotoxin anti-Tac (Fv)-PE40. To examine the feasibility of this technique for the negative selection in mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells, we investigated the resp...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Kobayashi K,Ohye T,Pastan I,Nagatsu T

更新日期：1996-09-15 00:00:00